For the second time in three days a Trojan has been deposited on my PC while I was attempting to respond to a post here. This happened Christmas morning and again this morning (12/28/2011).
The circumstances both times were the same. I was using quick reply to reply to a thread. While typing...
Bottom line, a big hole in an add on product, VBSEO, let in the malicious code.
Evildoers used this hole to inject some very highly obfuscated code into our database.
That bad code was injected above our normal html for anyone who was not logged in.
It set a cookie on the infected users...
I'm consolidating the issues into this single thread.
These are the prior reports from the help desk:
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f86/trojan-detected-when-first-going-north-carolina-woodworker-34590/
http://www.ncwoodworker.net/forums/f86/bug-34591/...
Evil! Its out there!
We have found something unwelcome (much like a tick or powder post beetles) that we have promptly exterminated.
Life on the information stuperhighway is always going to be a tug of war between two elephants eating cheesecake.
I wanted to just take this opportunity...
We have started getting odd reports of errors.
Seem to affect IE8, but now folks are finding "Avast Trojan Virus" alerts.
I just kicked off a virus scan.
More digging, but seems really bizzare.
Jim
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